Diablo 3 is headed to Playstation 3 and 4

Brace yourselves, because today is unofficially Playstation 4 day. We finally got official confirmation on the console last night, sans any imagery of the device itself, as well as a whole heap of next-gen games that will be debuting on the device. One current-gen game that is arriving on the Playstation 3 and 4 consoles though? Why, it’s good ol’ El Diablo 3.

Announced by Blizzard last night at the New York event, the developer says that started a “strategic partnership” with Sony and have plans for “world domination”. Beyond that, nothing else was really shown. No gameplay footage, no explanation as to how exactly the world of Sanctuary would play on the consoles or what kind of user interface we could expect from the game. What we do know, is that all the latest patches, events and updates to the game will be included. Single and multiplayer will be a given, alongside some local co-op modes as well.

Naturally, quite a few PC gamers are more than a tad bit miffed at this news, citing that their Diablo was dumbed down for the third game, in order to appeal to a mass market of console gamers, which led to this comment on the Diablo 3 forums, via Kotaku:

Diablo 3 was setup to be a console game.

The reason only 4 players are allowed into a game is for 4 controllers.

The reason the quests make you walk in a linear closed circuit as opposed to big open worlds, is to keep your buds next to you on the same screen.

The reason for no skill points or complicated number crunching? To make console players happy.

The reason you have 4-5 skills on your bar at once? Very easy to use an Xbox/Ps3 controller to use skills.

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“Diablo 3 was setup to be a console game” – All those arguments quoted make 100% sense. I am a cross-platform player. I have an XBox and a PC. I hate it when they mess up a game for the one platform to cater for the other platform! Like D3. Some control schemes work for both with minor adjustments, others would not work unless they are “completely different”

Why? It’s going to go make console players life hell. Let them have it. The game is sh*te. Let them battle and curse and scream.

Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

BUT, while we are on the topic, yeah the game sucked ballz because they planned to release a dumbed down console game anyway. PC was just to up sales. It was never meant to be played on PC and it is clear with how there are no skill points, no complex rune system, COD style perks more like! BAH. They took us for a freaking ride man

Admiral Chief Erwin

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ElNicko

lets see a playstation controller take that kind of abuse and live to tell the tale